Excel allows full mouse functionality when using Macro Recorder. Why not
have the same ease of use in Word?

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Word's macro recorder records mouse actions that are equivalent to keyboard
commands, such as clicking a button or selecting a menu item. It does not
record text selection because, not being set up like Excel, it doesn't have
a specific "address" for the text being selected.

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Excel allows full mouse functionality when using Macro Recorder. Why not
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Not feasible due to the structure of the respective files (as well as perhaps
any number of other reason).

For example, when you select text with the mouse on a given line of a
certain 'page' while *recording* a macro it is entirely possible that the
text, the line, & the page may be somewhere else when you run that macro...
or no longer exist in the doc at all.

In Excel, any given cell - A1:IV65536 - will always be there regardless of
whether previous content has been changed or deleted, or new content entered.

Regards |:)

"hellbent" wrote:

Excel allows full mouse functionality when using Macro Recorder. Why not
have the same ease of use in Word?

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[Anthony Martin]

It isn't just the mouse text selection that is a problem, being able to use
the right click function in macro recorder would also be useful.

For example... if you wanted to update a field use the right click option
instead of having to go through the menus.

"hellbent" wrote:

Excel allows full mouse functionality when using Macro Recorder. Why not
have the same ease of use in Word?

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